Monthly Archives: July 2017

This video is a design (costume and technical) special effects study for CREATION by Sylvia Toy, a solo performance art movie. CREATION is based on Mbombo, the creator god in the religion and mythology of the Kuba of Central Africa, who created the world by vomiting various parts of it. CREATION is a mythology in which entities created by The First Ones are given the choice to become inanimate or animate, which I will show as a merge effect. This is the second study for that merge effect.

This video is a design study for CREATION by Sylvia Toy, a solo performance art movie. CREATION is based on Mbombo, the creator god in the religion and mythology of the Kuba of Central Africa, who created the world by vomiting various parts of it. CREATION is a mythology in which entities created by The First Ones are given the choice to become inanimate or animate, which I will show as a merge effect. This is the first study for that merge effect.

What is the best thing that I love about my work? It makes me feel free. My first sculpture professor was a precocious young man who told me “You can do anything you want.” I knew one day I would understand what he meant. When I told my husband that I had figured out how to make my characters float in outer space in our livingroom, I finally understood what my teacher was talking about.

What is my idea of perfect happiness? I have had a mental illness since I was child that frequently interferes with my emotional and intellectual processes. Beginning when I was 19, it was a nearly always an obstacle to my creativity. I made it my number one goal to achieve a state of mind in which I could be creative whenever I wanted to be. That is perfect happiness.

This video is pre-production costume, character and story development for my movie-in-progress, CREATION. CREATION is a mythology based on Mbombo, the creator god in the religion and mythology of the Kuba of Central Africa. Mbombo created the world by vomiting its parts into existence. The Egg’s Choice is an exploration of what happens to the “eggs” that are vomited up by The First One at the second moment in the Universe.